According to some reports, the Alberta Warriors were formed when Correctional Services Canada dispersed members of the Manitoba Warriors from Manitoba's Stony Mountain Institution to Alberta's Edmonton Institution in 1997. The Warriors spread to another province and set up an offshoot branch as the Alberta Warriors.

The gang has been identified with the initials"AW.", and have been identified by blue bandannas.

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As a prison gang, the Alberta Warriors have been conclusively reported in:

• Bowden Institution, a Calgary-area correctional facility that houses about 580 prisoners, and which houses between 30 and 60 gang members. An April 28th, 2006 assault at Bowden left an inmate with a splintered arm and mangled face that would later need reconstructive facial surgery. Authorities believe that a dispute arose between members of the Alberta Warriors and high-ranking members of the primarily Asian Crazy Dragons gang.
• Drumheller Institution, a Calgary-are facility where an unsuccessful $500 contract hit was attempted against a White Supremacist inmate in 2004. The intended victim, Todd Jefferey Irving, decided his best defence was an offensive attack against the supsected assassin, Roy Eyre.

As a street gang, the Alberta Warriors have been reported in Edmonton, Alta., where in 2004 one of six Warriors members lured a group of white teenagers into a basement and brutally kidnapped, beat, and stabbed them, spurring unsubstantiated allegations of racism and hate-crime.

• The Asian Crazy Dragons, a small gang limited to institutions in Alberta.
• The Bloods, specifically the branch that has set up in Edmonton and incited a turf war in the Warrior-dominated street drug trade. In 2006 a Warrior member was murdered by a Blood member in the city's Abbottsfield neighbourhood.
• Indian Posse
• Native Syndicate